Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.